Molthop surname
My maiden name is Molthop.My father is Richard Wilson Molthop, Uncles Peter D Molthop and William Wilson Molthop.My Grandfather is Duane T. Molthop.His father is William Richard Molthop all from the Chicago, Illinois area.My great grandfather came to Illinois on an orphan train from New York City in the 1850s mistakenly when he was temporairily in a foundling home while his mother went to Cuba to take care of his sick father.His father was an engineer from Heidelburg, Germany who was working on the Cuban railroad and died of Yellow Fever.The mother, Mary Frances Armstrong Molthop, came back to New York to find that her children had been adopted out or sent on the orphan trains.That's the family story but I can find no record of Mary Frances Armstrong Molthop or her husband William Richard Molthop.The son William Richard Molthop lived in Iowa and Kansas and later died in the Chicago area at age 96.I don't know the names of his siblings.If any of this sounds familar please e mail me.Thanks.My sister Susan lives in Louisville, but I don't know if we are related at all to your branch of the MOlthops.It's an unusual name and maybe we are connected in some way.